topic Do I need separate Access Points? in Wireless

Do I need separate Access Points?

jaighobahi — Sun, 04 Jul 2021 03:19:49 GMT

Hi All,

I am reading Cisco documentation on Wireless Local Area Network, but it is getting kind of confusing. If I need to design for wireless mobility in a network to support data, voice and guest, do I need to provide separate AP for data, separate AP for voice and separate AP for guest access? Isn't there an AP that can support all three groups in one box?

Thanks,

Joe

Do I need separate Access Points?

Leo Laohoo — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 04:16:59 GMT

If I need to design for wireless mobility in a network to support data, voice and guest, do I need to provide separate AP for data, separate AP for voice and separate AP for guest access?

Yes and no. Each autonomous AP can support up to 16 SSID. Controller-based can support up to 16 as well BUT if you have the firmware of 6.X and later then you can support up to 256 SSID with some funky configuration.

NOTE: To those who are reading this and know about the 5.X firmware, I ain't going to recommend anyone to this version.

Do I need separate Access Points?

jaighobahi — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 21:05:47 GMT

Thanks a lot. When you say "funky configuration", are you implying complex configuration?

Joe

Do I need separate Access Points?

Leo Laohoo — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 02:32:25 GMT

No. Funky configuration like AP Groups.

Do I need separate Access Points?

jaighobahi — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 05:52:12 GMT

Noted. Thanks

Do I need separate Access Points?

Leo Laohoo — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 22:20:06 GMT

Can you please mark this Thread as "Answered" if you have no further questions? Thank you very much.

Re: Do I need separate Access Points?

rupert.wever — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 21:12:55 GMT

You do not need separate ap's for each application. Best-practice recommendation is to have separate wlans/ssids and map them to different vlans. That helps segment the data for qos as well as security.

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